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12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.”(A)

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12 What if my father touches me?(A) I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse(B) on myself rather than a blessing.”

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18 “ ‘Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind person on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’(A)

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18 “Cursed is anyone who leads the blind astray on the road.”(A)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

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22 abstain from every form of evil.

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22 reject every kind of evil.

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in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors and yet are true,

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through glory and dishonor,(A) bad report(B) and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;(C)

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14 Cursed be the cheat who has a male in the flock and vows to give it and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished, for I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and my name is reverenced among the nations.(A)

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14 “Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal(A) to the Lord. For I am a great king,(B)” says the Lord Almighty,(C) “and my name is to be feared(D) among the nations.(E)

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16 With him are strength and wisdom;
    the deceived and the deceiver are his.(A)

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16 To him belong strength and insight;(A)
    both deceived and deceiver are his.(B)

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36 Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob?[a] For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and look, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 27.36 That is, he supplants or he takes by the heel

36 Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob[a]?(A) This is the second time he has taken advantage of(B) me: He took my birthright,(C) and now he’s taken my blessing!”(D) Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 27:36 Jacob means he grasps the heel, a Hebrew idiom for he takes advantage of or he deceives.

27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.(A)

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27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter,(A) a man of the open country,(B) while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents.

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10 Accursed is the one who is slack in doing the work of the Lord, and accursed is the one who keeps back the sword from bloodshed.(A)

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10 “A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the Lord’s work!
    A curse on anyone who keeps their sword(A) from bloodshed!(B)

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21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”(A) 22 So Jacob went up to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

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21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you,(A) my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.”

22 Jacob went close to his father Isaac,(B) who touched(C) him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

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25 he said,

“Cursed be Canaan;
    lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers.”(A)

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25 he said,

“Cursed(A) be Canaan!(B)
    The lowest of slaves
    will he be to his brothers.(C)

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